Couldn't Think - from January 2024

buffybegood

ASLEFshrugged said:

Forest’s owner given a 5 match ban for spitting towards the referee after the 1-1 draw against Fulham

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/oct/22/nottingham-forest-owner-evangelos-marinakis-banned-spitting-officials

Didn't Forest lose the game?

buffybegood

Apparently Füllkrug has gone to Germany for more tests and a new set of injections (Source: DusseldorfHammer on KUMB who generally seems well informed especially on anything German related). The optimistic prognosis is he might be back after the next International break (end of November). Surgery, possibly season ending, is being mentioned.

What a nightmare signing this has been, and will likely continue to be. 3 and a half more years we've got him for, he's not started a PL game yet, and he might need surgery. How many players get back to their best after major surgery in their 30s?

Tim has really dropped the ball with this given that he was managing an injury in this area (lower calf/Achilles) when we signed him.

EXETERHAMMER

If only we had been hungry like the wolf and got Duran.

buffybegood

EXETERHAMMER said:

If only we had been hungry like the wolf and got Duran.

He scored again last night.

BubblesNeverDies

EXETERHAMMER said:

If only we had been hungry like the wolf and got Duran.

He must be well happy he chose a different team in claret and blue.

Ravel49

EXETERHAMMER said:

If only we had been hungry like the wolf and got Duran.

If I had My Own Way this would have got more traction 😜

ASLEFshrugged

buffybegood said:

Didn't Forest lose the game?

They did. 0-1 Fulham given a penalty and Forest had a penalty ruled out

buffybegood

ASLEFshrugged said:

buffybegood said:

Didn't Forest lose the game?

They did. 0-1 Fulham given a penalty and Forest had a penalty ruled out

So not a 1-1 draw then 😂🤣😂?

ASLEFshrugged

buffybegood said:

ASLEFshrugged said:

buffybegood said:

Didn't Forest lose the game?

They did. 0-1 Fulham given a penalty and Forest had a penalty ruled out

So not a 1-1 draw then 😂🤣😂?

See my earlier post on the Man Utd thread

EXETERHAMMER

Ravel....Are you serious?

Ravel49

I guess so.. in My Own Way..

buffybegood

3 years too late, F1 stewards finally realise that Vertappen is a dangerous driver; he's been given two 10 second penalties in the same race. He got away with murder in the 2021 season which he was awarded (he definitely didn't win it) by completely wrong/corrupt decisions by the race director in the final race of the season, and his driving hasn't had to face much scrutiny in the 2 seasons since as the Red Bull was in a different league. Now that he's under pressure, he's reverted to type, was extremely lucky not to be penalised last weekend (to such an extent that his driving is leading to a re-writing of the rules to clarify the situation), and has twice been penalised in today's race.

Ravel49

MrsGrey said:

The stream I had on for the MNF, Pardew doing punditry in an outrageous jumper.

Wasn’t this rascal number was it? Bit early I know

MrsGrey

🤯

buffybegood

Without wanting to get too political, when reading this BBC article one person is getting £2,750 a month in benefits. Some of it is health related, but, even so, £33k a year seems like an awful lot to me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyv8y68e25o

OutcastLondoner

Probably wouldn’t be that much if housing and utility bills weren’t so out of control

nychammer66

I can’t believe the first guy is paying 200 month rent to his parents. I’d never take money from my kids.

buffybegood

nychammer66 said:

I can’t believe the first guy is paying 200 month rent to his parents. I’d never take money from my kids.

My mum took money off my sister when she started work which my sister really resented, until she started looking for a house when my mum gave back everything she'd paid in rent to help towards the deposit.

steve

I did the same thing to my step daughter who had to live with us for a year due to a health problem .Gave it all back when she moved out lucky we could afford to do that .when I started work my mum asked me to pay a little each week until I moved out which was fine as my parents did not have much

ASLEFshrugged

I paid my parents rent when I started work although it also covered bills, I got fed, my laundry done, etc.

The woman on £33k a year has “several disabilities, including a connective tissue disorder that causes their joints to dislocate”

On top of Employment and Support Allowance of £1,042 she gets Personal Independent Payments of £798 which I know about from the ex-Mrs shrugged and she must be on a pretty high level of support to get that much

Housing Benefit of £917 per month but her rent is £1250 a month

She worked as a civil servant and in marketing so probably paid a fair amount in tax and NI before she got too sick to work

BubblesNeverDies

When I started work back in the 60s, it was unthinkable, out of self-respect, for me not to contribute out of my £5.19.11½d
Can't remember how much but I think it was probably 40%.

claretandbluesky

Sadly the condemnation of anyone receiving benefits is a result of conservative deflection. They always need to deflect you to 'foreigners' or 'benefit scroungers' as the source of the poor state of services provided, all whilst they fill their pockets. The amount of covid PPE contracts awarded to those with connections to Tory MPs and donors receives a fraction of the press attention it should. Companies with no trading history and set up weeks previously, yet awarded contracts worth many millions of pounds. Much of which was substandard and now stored or being burned.

There will always be people who will scam the system and of course not all benefit claimants are genuine, but that there are safety nets is one of the great things about any country and a measure of its compassion and care for it's citizens. I write this as someone fortunate enough at this point to have never needed claim anything, but very happy we have a support system for those that need it.

buffybegood

claretandbluesky said:

Sadly the condemnation of anyone receiving benefits is a result of conservative deflection.

I was certainly wasn't condemning anyone, simply stating that £33k a year is a very high level of a safety net imo.

claretandbluesky

buffybegood said:

claretandbluesky said:

Sadly the condemnation of anyone receiving benefits is a result of conservative deflection.

I was certainly wasn't condemning anyone, simply stating that £33k a year is a very high level of a safety net imo.

It wasn't aimed at you Buffy, it was a general attitude which that particular story in the press has made rise up again in various places online. I agree with you and 33k would seem a lot to me also, but as Aslef points out it's a combination of a few different eligible payments that create that amount. My post was more about the demonising of the benefits system as a drain and recipients as scroungers rather than a source of pride in being a country that looks after its citizens when in need.

MrsGrey

buffybegood said:

claretandbluesky said:

Sadly the condemnation of anyone receiving benefits is a result of conservative deflection.

I was certainly wasn't condemning anyone, simply stating that £33k a year is a very high level of a safety net imo.

But someone without complex medical needs wouldn't have a £33k safety net.

PIP is allocate to people who can't manage unaided to, for example, get to the toilet, get dressed, wash/bathe themselves... getting to medical appointments.

Not specifically directed at you, buffy, but your post is a good jumping off point for clarification.

As someone who was a carer for someone who, had we been in the UK, would have qualified for PIP on many fronts, I can absolutely say that in my experience must be a godsend. Without it, life is very grim.

I'm glad to pay tax if this is the sort of thing it is spent on. Rather than other things alluded to by some of the other folks in that article.

And I am sure that the DWP is not handing out wedges of tenners willy nilly!

thornburyiron

I’m sure you’re right in that the DWP doesn’t hand out tenners willy nilly but once they’re handed out they seem to have no further control or idea as to whether they should be continued because it seems the onus is on the beneficiary to notify them of changes in circumstances.
A friend of my wife has been on benefits for the past 15 years or so, drives a new Range Rover Evoque and admits to having no idea why she’s still on them. She goes to job interviews and states that she wants no more than about 12 hours per week as it will affect her benefits.

Whitehorsehammer

I didn’t intend to add that comment, touched screen by mistake.

BubblesNeverDies

Thorn, sounds like your wife's friend is one of those who as c&bsky said "There will always be people who will scam the system".

ASLEFshrugged

buffybegood said:

I was certainly wasn't condemning anyone, simply stating that £33k a year is a very high level of a safety net imo.

As mentioned the woman is getting £798 Personal Independent Payments a month. PIP is awarded in two parts, mobility and daily living, with various levels depending on severity of disability, how much help/care the person needs, etc.

The ex-Mrs shrugged gets highest mobility (she needs a wheelchair to go any distance0 and medium daily living (she can do most things for herself)

£798 would be highest for both categories

Kuchinghammer

BubblesNeverDies said:

When I started work back in the 60s, it was unthinkable, out of self-respect, for me not to contribute out of my £5.19.11½d
Can't remember how much but I think it was probably 40%.

What's 40% of eleven pence ha'penny? Just 🤔